Revolving flag-holder.



ELL. LAWLOR.

REVOLVING FL AG HOLDER APPLICATION FILED JULY 18. 1917.

Patented J an. 1, 1918.

III/ll alloznvi EMERY LESLIE LAWLOR, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

REVOLVING FLAG-HOLDER.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1,1918.

Application filed July 18, 1917. Serial No. 181,368.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, EMERY LESLIE LAW- LOR, a citizen of the Unitedstatea'and a resident of Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Revolving Flag-Holders, of which the following is a specification. V

The present invention relates to flag holders, and more particularly to that type adapted for application to motor vehicles or other moving bodies.

An object of the present invention is to provide a flag holder which may be attached to a moving body, such as a motor vehicle; which is provided with a movable part adapted to carry one or more flags and to revolve or otherwise move; which is provided with means for actuating the movable parts by wind pressure against the flag holder incident to the traveling of the body to which the device is attached; which is provided with means for detachably engaging the staff of the flag to securelyhold the same-in position and admit of the ready removal of the flag; and which is provided with a bracket arm adapted to be detachably secured to the neck of a radiator of a motor vehicle or the like.

The above, and various other objects and advantages of this invention will be in part described, and in part understood, from the following detailed description of the present preferred embodiment, the same being illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein f Figure/1 is a front elevation of the device secured to the upper end of a motor vehicle radiator, Fig. 2 is a side partly'in section.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the attaching bracket as applied to the neck of the radiator, the latter being shown in section.

' Fig. 4 is a vertical view in section of one form of clamping socket, showing a flag staff secured therein.

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view through the upper end of one of the flag staffs.

Fig. 6 is a horizontal section through the same on the line 6-6- of Fig. 5.

Fig, 7 is a side elevation of a modified form of socket for the reception of the flag staff.

Referring to this drawing, 10 designates a frame which is preferably in the form of elevation of the device,

an inclosing casing of substantially L-shaped vvithin the casing 10 has fixed thereto a beveled pinion 13 which meshes with a relatively large beveled gear wheel 14; arranged in the upper horizontal portion of the frame '10. A shaft 15 is journaled through the horizontal portion of the frame 10 and is fixed at its intermediate part to the gear wheel 14. Upon the upper end of the shaft 15 is fixed a table or disk 16, the latter being provided at suitably spaced-apart points with upstanding sockets 17 adapted to receive lower-ends of flagstafl's 18 therein.

. As shown in detail in Fig. 4t, each socket 17 may comprise a plurality of circularly arranged outwardly bowed jaws having inwardly facing clamping teeth 19 upon their upper ends, and an encircling ring 20 vertically slidable over of the jaws for contracting the teeth 19 thereof against the lower end of the flag staff 18. As shown in Fig. 7, the socket may be in the form of a cylinder 17 a adapted to receive the lower end of therein, and which carries a thumb screw 2O threaded through one side of the sleeve 17 and adapted to bind against the flag staff. The sockets 17, or 17, are secured to the table 16 in any suitable manner, such as by spot welding, and are preferably arranged in a circular rowadjacent to the outer edge portion of the. table.

The flag staffs 18 21 formed of a suitable fabric, or other. desirable material, and which are attached to the staffs 18 to prevent'the-winding of the flags 21 thereabout when the table 16 is rotated. For this purpose, eachflag 21 is preferably mounted upon a sleeve or tube 22 which is rotatably mounted upon the reduced shank portion 23 of the staff 18. From Fig. 6 of the drawing it will be seen that the sleeve 22 may be slit longitudinally at one side to admit of the expansion and contraction of the sleeve as the latter is fitted the outer bowed faces.

are provided with flags mediate portion of the spindle 11 arranged v the upon and removed from the shank or spine dle portion 23 of the staff. The reduced portion 23 of the staff is formed preferably near the upper end thereof to leave an annular flange or head 24 for retaining the sleeve 22 from upward displacement. The

tension of the flag 21 upon the sleeve 22 is' sufficient to hold the sleevefrom turning with the staff 18.

Any suitable means may be employed for securing the frame 10 to and in the present instance the depending vertical portion of the frame carries a rearbracket arm '25 which may wardly extending pair of metallic straps be formed from a secured in surface contact through the major portions of their lengths, and which are bowed outwardly near their rear ends to form a pair of clamping jaws 26 and 27. The jaws 26 and 27 are of a size to engage about the opposite side portions of the neck A of a motor vehicle radiator, or the like, and are provided with out-turned flanges at their meeting ends for the reception of a clamping bolt 28. The jaw 27 is preferably connected to its adjacent strip by means of a hinge 29 which admits of the swinging V outwardly of the jaw 27 away from the radiator neck A to facilitate the attachmentthe removal of the device thereto.

The wind wheel 12, as shown in Fig. 1, has its central portion red in color, as indicated at 30, is provided with an intermediate white portion 31 surrounding the red portion 80, and has the outer ends of the vanes and ' thereof of a blue color, as indicated at 32.

When the wheel 12 is revolved it presents the appearance of a disk provided with concentric red, white and blue portions.

In operation, when the motor vehicle, or other body to which the device is attached, is moved forwardly, rotated by impact of the wheel with the wind. The rotation of the wheel 12 drives the pinion 13, and the latter drives the gear wheel H to rotate the shaft 15 and the table 16; The flag staffs 18, which are mounted in the holders 17, are thus moved circularly and the flags are thus presented to the eye in an interchanging manner as the body portions thereof are directed rearwardly at all times during the operation of the device.

Copies The horizontal a movable body,

the wind wheel 12 is of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington; D. C.

portions 21 or the body portions of the flags are of a length less than the diametrical distancebetween the sockets 17 so that the laterally in front of one rotation of the table 16.

The device comprisesbut relatively few parts, may be economically manufactured, and may be readily attached to motor, vehicles Without mar-ringerpermanently attachi-ng any partsto the same.

It is ofwc'ours'e understood that various changesandfimodifications' may be made in the details of construction of the above specifically described flag holderwithout departing from the spirit of this invention, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

I claim- V 1. In a flag holder theeombination of a frame, means for securing the frame to a support,.a table mounted to turn in substantially a liorizo'ntalplane 011 the frame, sockets carried by the table to receive flag staffs therein, a spindle projecting from the frame and havingconnecti'on with the table to turn the same, and a wind wheel mounted on the spindle to rotate the latter.

2. In a flag holder, the combination of a frame, means for securing the frame to a support, a table mounted'to turn on'the frame, a wind wheel carrie'dbythe frame and having connection with the table to turn the latter, flag staffs rising from the table, sleeves rotatable on the flag staffs, and flag bodiessecured to said sleeves.

8. In a flag holder, the combination of a frame, a bracket arm projecting rearwardly from the frame, a pair of-clamping jaws carried upon tllQbItCkGtffllIIl adapted to engage the neck of a radiator, aspindlepr0- jecting from the frame, a wind wheel mounted on the forward end ofthe spindle, a pinion fixed upon the inner end-of the spindle, a gear wheel mounted in the frame meshing'with the pinion, a shaft extending upwardly from the mounted on the upper and a plurality of flag holders mountedon the table.

EMERY LESLIE LAWL'OR.

flags may consecutively pass another during the gear wheel, a table;

end of the shaft,

Commissioner of Patents, 

